On Friday, 24 February 2017 at 14:35:44 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
It's like the new safety features on handheld buzzsaws which make it basically impossible to cut yourself. Should people be using these things safely? Yes. But, accidents happen, so the tool's design takes human behavior into account and we're all the better for it.
Chainsaws are effective, but dangerous. So you should have both training and use safety equipment. Training and safety equipment is available for C-like languages (to the level of provable correctness), and such that it doesn't change the runtime performance.
But at the end of the day it all depends, for some context it matters less if program occasionally fails than others. It is easier to get a small module correct than a big application with many interdependencies etc.
If you don't want to max out performance you might as well consider Go, Java, C#, Swift etc. I don't really buy into the idea that a single language has to cover all bases.
